What is the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture? - Manjul Bhargava [2016]

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2016 Clay Research Conference
28 September 2016
15:30 Manjul Bhargava
What is the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, and what is known about it?
Introduced by Andrew Wiles
Manjul Bhargava is the R. Brandon Fradd Professor of Mathematics
at Princeton University and the Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at
Leiden University. He obtained his PhD from Princeton University in
2001, under the supervision of Andrew Wiles. He is a Member of the
National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American
Mathematical Society. His outstanding contributions to number theory
have been recognised by many prizes, including the Clay Research
Award (2005),the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2005), the Cole Prize
(2008), and the Fields Medal (2014).
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